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Ted Bowley

Edward Henry Bowley

Born: 6 June 1890, Leatherhead, Surrey
Died: 9 July 1974, Winchester, Hampshire
Major Teams: Sussex, Auckland, England.
Known As: Ted Bowley
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Leg Break


Test Debut: England v South Africa at Leeds, 3rd Test, 1929
Last Test:
England v New Zealand at Auckland, 4th Test, 1929/30

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1930

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    5    7   0   252  109   36.00   1   0    2   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling              42      7   116    0    -     -      0   0    -   2.76

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1912 - 1934)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  510  859  47 28378  283   34.94  52 147  373   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             40818 19257  741  25.98  9-114  28   2  55.0  2.83

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

Ted Bowley was an excellent, aggressive opening-bat. He hit 52 first-class centuries, but his opportunities at the highest level were restricted by the presence in the England side of Hobbs and Sutcliffe. Debuting for Sussex prior to the Great War, he played his first full season in 1914, only to lose the next four years to the war. He returned to Sussex in 1920, and scored over 1000 runs in each of fourteen successive seasons. He was particularly strong off the back foot, with a superb cut, and excelled at the force through the covers. He was a good player of slow bowling, but if he had a fault it was his impatience, preferring to put away the good length ball for runs rather than defend. He was also a good leg-break bowler, who took 90 wickets in 1929, his best season with both ball and bat. The same year he hit his then highest first-class score of 280*, made in a day, and part of a county record opening stand of 368 with J.H Parks. Four years later, he (with 283) and John Langridge made 490 for the first wicket, a record that still stands 67 years later, as does his second-wicket partnership record of 385 with Maurice Tate from 1921.

With Hobbs out of contention, Bowley, in good form, made his Test debut at the age of 39 against South Africa in 1929. After making a respectable 31 in the first innings he played an important part in England's win, making 46, and salvaging the second innings in partnership with Woolley, after Sutcliffe and Hammond had been dismissed with only 13 on the board. He failed in the next Test, and Hobbs returned for The Oval, but Bowley was selected for the winter tour of New Zealand (a second England team was simultaneously touring the West Indies). He made his only Test century in a match ruined by rain, and finished his Test career with an innings of 42 in the fourth Test. On his retirement he coached for 23 seasons at Winchester (DL 2000).

* Last Updated: Monday, 29-Jul-2002 02:28:09 GMT


 
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